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Bonnie Christine Gidzak – ProQuest LLC, 2020
A widespread atomic science public education movement in the United States during the late 1940s provided multiple media through which the basic science of the atom moved from scientific obscurity to expected public knowledge. During the first half of the twentieth century information about atomic science for the general public was limited and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational History, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Energy
Gomez-Sevilla SJ, Hugo – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Innovation has taken place in education as a necessity to respond to a rapidly changing world. In their commitment to contribute to the creative and healing mission of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuit School Network of Catalonia created HORIZON 2020 to envision a new school to effectively educate in the 21st Century and adapt the Ignatian…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Catholics, Catholic Schools, Organizations (Groups)
Lawson, Nicole Lannoy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Mainstream American environmental education (EE) programs often place undue privilege on inquiry-based scientific epistemologies and settler colonial wilderness ideologies (Cronon 1995b, Wolfe 2006) as the primary drivers in determining program design. Those programs in the urban setting add an environmental justice layer to these frameworks, by…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Urban Areas, Disadvantaged Youth, Minority Groups
Sharma, Rashmi – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore women district leader's perceptions of organizational change in a rural women's education and empowerment program in India, using an appreciative inquiry framework. This is a qualitative case study of the Mahila Samakhya (MS) program, which was initiated to provide non-formal education and empower rural…
Descriptors: Females, Administrator Attitudes, Women Administrators, Rural Areas
Stolar, Margaret – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore and to compare the programs at two Pennsylvania Universities for students with intellectual disabilities (ID). The study explored how each university began the program from idea to implementation, including why and when it was started. The first university in this study was a four-year private school that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Intellectual Disability, Program Descriptions, College Students
Akunvabey, Stephanie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Sound Business Inc. (SBI) has worked to improve college access for Black and Latino students at A. Philip Randolph (APR) High School in New York City for over twenty-five years. This Case Study provides an in-depth look at the relationship between an in-house non-profit organization and an NYC public high school. How does this non-traditional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Hispanic American Students, African American Students
Albracht, Carolyn Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Research regarding outdoor environmental education programs for youth tends to be quantitative in nature, examining cause-and-effect relationships between program content and participants' behavior and attitudes. Some researchers have suggested that programs that help foster an affective connection with nature in its participants may have more…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Place Based Education, Outdoor Education, Environmental Education
Hunt, Terry Lile – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Scope and method of study: The purpose of this study was to construct a descriptive analysis of aviation maintenance training programs that confer the Bachelor of Science degree and who are members of the Aviation Technician Education Council. The sample was comprised of the 11 educational programs within the population that met these criteria.…
Descriptors: Aviation Education, Administrative Organization, Technical Education, Questionnaires
Lewis, Donna S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to describe a collaborative partnership model known as the Global Educational Ecosystem, which involves three K-12 schools in Northern California, community organizations (representing science, technology, health, and arts), and Xilinx, Inc. from the perspectives of the leaders of the involved partner organizations in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ecology, Community Organizations, Partnerships in Education